Comments on: Twitter's network gets breached again

For the second time this year, someone has broken into Twitter's internal admin system and accessed accounts.

[n3td3v]

How long till that forum gets shut down?

[jtlevin]

How stupid can you be to use a real answer as your secret question or use a real word for your password that can be easily hacked with a brute force dictionary attack?

Sigh. Maybe people will learn from this but I doubt it...

[septa44]

Twitter is always going to be susceptible to this. But that guy should be fired for such an easy password. Twitter Backlash had a recent post of the hackability of Twitter that was good.

http://twitterbacklash.squarespace.com/journal/2009/4/16/too-trusting-on-twitter.html

[B-Ri]

Fired for a bad password? Seems a bit extreme don't you think? If they need real security then they should be using 2 factor authentication. A password is rarely secure since it requires a human to remember it and so often it is set to something simple. Plus you then get these systems that require a forgotten password link that is able to be used to reset and gain access. Just my .02 worth.

[Dalkorian]

I'm with septa here, any "admin" that's capable of using such an idiotic password as "happiness" deserves to be fired. It's not extreme at all, it's expecting someone to be capable of doing their job in a safe and secure way. If you had a bus driver who drove down the sidewalk and ran over school children, you would fire him.

Need a password that's easier to remember than a random set of characters? Fine, but at least sub in some numbers. "h4pp1n3s5" is much more secure than "happiness" is. Anyone who doesn't understand that shouldn't have an administrator level account on any computer system.

[rsrupert1972]

Twitter's a joke anyway. I have a ATT account, but can't use twitter because eventhough they tweet on the att network, my att numbers not supported